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Neighbours Corey star's life - secret career, TV roles and character fate
Neighbours star Laurence Boxhall has made quite the splash after recently hitting screens.Born in England before emigrating down under as a teenager, the actor made his show debut last month while the Aussie soap was filming in London.Laurence plays the villainous Corey Smythe-Jones, who has been sabotaging Harlow Robinson's life since meeting her.Having followed Harlow (Jemma Donovan) back to Erinsborough, the new Ramsay Street resident has been isolating Harlow from her loved ones in an attempt to recruit her into the Restoration Order cult.Already unmasked as a villain by Neighbours fans, Corey will continue to turn Harlow's support system against her - but, who is Laurence Boxhall? And, where have we seen him before?Acting aside, Laurence has gained a fair bit of notoriety for his successful side hustle gig of narrating audiobooks.The Melbourne-based actor recently won an Audiofile Earphone Award for narrating the children's book 'Digger and Me' by Ros Roberts.Additionally, he recorded a number of audiobooks during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown in Australia.Posting to his Facebook page in September, Laurence also revealed his love for the craft, writing: "Got audiobooks on the brain."Ahead of his Neighbours gig, Laurence secured a number of small TV and film roles.The actor made his onscreen debut as Simon Birch in the 2014 series 2014 Worst Year of My Life, Again!.After small roles in Deadline Gallipoli and Spirit of the Game, he appeared as Daniel in Ronny Chieng: International Student three years later in 2017.Laurence has also filmed a lead role in TV series Dave & Theo and his fist short-film feature, Night Shift.